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Originally Posted by FS1992EG
If DRIVE is that good, why wouldn't a network pick them up and finance a tv show out of this.
Most youtubers made it without cooperate monetary backing or a large amount of start up money.
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/Drive already had a two year contract with money from Youtube financing their previous films. That deal is now done and they're looking for new ways to fund their videos. Corporate backing is great and all, but more often than not, they company paying you will inevitably ask for advertising (see The Smoking Tire or Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee) that tends to take away from the overall experience. I imagine that's what they're trying to avoid here. And them being picked up by NBC is great and all, but often for a relatively unknown (read: new) show on TV, the freedom they're given is often extremely lacking.